Ernest Hollings

This summer, air travel is for people who expect to go to hell and want to know what it will be like. Security lines have reached epic lengths at O'Hare, Midway and other airports, thousands of travelers have missed flights, and the Transportation Security Administration now advises passengers to arrive two hours before departure for domestic flights — and three in some places.

The agency in charge of aviation security has become a major problem. That's odd, because it was supposed to be a solution. Nearly 15 years after it was created, it's a case study of how firm, well-intentioned government intervention can produce an exploding cigar.

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